mægth

plural mægths

1. alternativeAlternative form of maegth.

   […]an alliance of such mægths and their leading satraps.

   1982, Michael Swanton, Crisis and Development in Germanic Society, 700-800: Beowulf and the Burden of Kingship, Kümmerle Verlag, →ISBN, page 26

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   Whether, before the name of shire was introduced into Mercia, the several mægths or regions bore any common designation, such as that of gau, must remain in entire obscurity.

   1874, William Stubbs, “The Anglo-Saxon System”, in The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 111

   It is clear from the place-names that the settlement of the Jutes, the Saxons, and the Angles in Britain was largely effected on the principle of allotment of territory to mægths.

   1905, P[aul] Vinogradoff, The Growth of the Manor, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., page 140

   The numerous earthworks called Maiden Castle, many of them of Celtic origin, were probably used as defensive earthworks by the early mægths.

   1906, Thomas William Shore, Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race: A Study of the Settlement of England and the Tribal Origin of the Old English People, page 170

   Settlement was by mægths, and the unit of landed property was the terra familiae (hiwisc or hide), which, as involving a kind of house-community with regard to proprietorship and cultivation, was “probably not unlike” the Welsh gwely (p. 141).

   1906, The American Historical Review, page 363